The NHL on Thursday night released the hotel assignments for the 24 teams participating in the qualifying round.
Players will all have their own rooms, and each team will have its own floor in the hotel.
The Eastern Conference teams will be staying in two Toronto hotels -- Hotel X and Royal York.
The Penguins will be staying in Hotel X, along with the Flyers, Capitals, Bruins, and Lightning.
Hotel X is less than 10 minutes away from Scotiabank Arena, where the games will be taking place. It's not clear if players will have access to the hotel's amenities, which include eight squash courts, a spin studio, four indoor tennis courts, a pilates studio and a hot yoga studio, a Topgolf Swing Suite, a rooftop pool and a movie screening room.
Royal York, just five minutes away from Scotiabank Arena, will host the Hurricanes, Islanders, Maple Leafs, Blue Jackets, Panthers, Rangers, and Canadiens.
The Western Conference teams will be staying in two Edmonton hotels -- the JW Marriott and Sutton Place.
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Rogers Place, JW Marriott. -- MARRIOTT.COM[/caption]
The JW Marriott, which is right next to Rogers Place, will host the Blues, Avalanche, Golden Knights, Stars, Oilers, and Predators. Sutton Place is less than five minutes from Rogers Place, and will host the Canucks, Flames, Jets, Wild, Coyotes, and Blackhawks.
After the hotel assignments were released, Twitter was full of memes about the plan, especially about all of the rivals in Hotel X:
brad marchand at the hotel x lobby by week 2 pic.twitter.com/eWJkvmcpKR
— copaganda can choke // kit (@worthhellabucks) July 10, 2020
Y’all know that elevator fight scene from Captain America? That’s gonna be every elevator ride in Hotel X
— Leo 🏳️🌈 (@goalferal) July 9, 2020
When 2 teams in Hotel X see each other in the lobby https://t.co/3CAyAhtMmw pic.twitter.com/BeOV3o80zb
— Purple Monkey Dishwasher (@HayekandHockey) July 10, 2020
Tom Wilson at the Hotel X Breakfast Buffet pic.twitter.com/heVTNXj16B
— dan 🍀 BLM (@braincellpuck) July 10, 2020
hotel x pic.twitter.com/Y5KNThFwY8
— 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 🍂 (@johnmarinoh) July 10, 2020
the person who made the arrangements for hotel x: pic.twitter.com/UGBaRVZCKX
— rylie birthday | blm (@cheeksavoy) July 10, 2020
The islanders and Tavares while waiting for their complimentary hotel waffles pic.twitter.com/bPvnnu0Uv1
— reporting live from the nhl’s business (@haley_n_t) July 10, 2020
Boston and Tampa running into each other at the hotel restaurant pic.twitter.com/dXPEXZCXPC
— reporting live from the nhl’s business (@haley_n_t) July 10, 2020
Can we put cameras in the NHL hotel lobbies? It's basically Big Brother for the next couple months any ways.
— Meghan Chayka (@MeghanChayka) July 9, 2020
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